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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What answer do K.'s assistants get when they call the Castle for permission to visit?
(a) They are told they must fill out the right forms.
(b) They are told no.
(c) They are told they must wait three days.
(d) They are told they can come at once.

2. Where do Frieda and K. make love?
(a) On the taproom floor.
(b) In the churchyard.
(c) In one of the inn's bedrooms.
(d) Outside under a tree.

3. Who does K. believe is behind the landlady's marriage and the lease of the inn?
(a) The Count.
(b) Hans.
(c) Hans' uncle.
(d) Klamm.

4. How did the landlady meet her husband?
(a) He came to stay at her father's inn.
(b) He bought flowers from her every day in her flower shop.
(c) He was a messenger between her and Klamm.
(d) He consoled her after Klamm stopped calling on her.

5. From whom does K. receive a letter?
(a) Frieda.
(b) Olga.
(c) The Count.
(d) Klamm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does K. think of the Castle when he goes to look at it?

2. How does K. try to get out of the conversation with Frieda's mother?

3. Why does Frieda say her mother has decided to kick K. out of the house?

4. What does K. tell Schwarzer he is?

5. What finally happens to the sleigh and the horses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between K. and the assistants after Frieda gets up in the middle of the night at the school?

2. What does Klamm look like?

3. What reason does the teacher give that the chairman wants to help K.?

4. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

5. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

6. What does K. suspect about Frieda, at the end of Chapter XII?

7. What is K.'s attitude toward the gentleman in Chapter IX?

8. How does K. react to the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting?

9. How does the Castle react to inquiries about K. when he first arrives?

10. What does K. praise Frieda for?

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